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3 -- GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS --
5 -- G N A T . E X P E C T . N O N _ B L O C K I N G _ S P A W N --
9 -- Copyright (C) 2005 Ada Core Technologies, Inc. --
11 -- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under --
12 -- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- --
13 -- ware Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later ver- --
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15 -- OUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY --
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20 -- Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. --
22 -- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this --
23 -- unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable, --
24 -- this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be --
25 -- covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not --
26 -- however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be --
27 -- covered by the GNU Public License. --
29 -- GNAT was originally developed by the GNAT team at New York University. --
30 -- Extensive contributions were provided by Ada Core Technologies Inc. --
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34 -- This package provides a target dependent non-blocking spawn function
35 -- for use by the VMS GNAT.Expect package (g-expect-vms.adb). This package
36 -- should not be directly with'ed by an application program.
38 -- This version is for Alpha/VMS.
40 separate (GNAT
.Expect
)
41 procedure Non_Blocking_Spawn
42 (Descriptor
: out Process_Descriptor
'Class;
44 Args
: GNAT
.OS_Lib
.Argument_List
;
45 Buffer_Size
: Natural := 4096;
46 Err_To_Out
: Boolean := False)
48 function Alloc_Vfork_Blocks
return Integer;
49 pragma Import
(C
, Alloc_Vfork_Blocks
, "decc$$alloc_vfork_blocks");
51 function Get_Vfork_Jmpbuf
return System
.Address
;
52 pragma Import
(C
, Get_Vfork_Jmpbuf
, "decc$$get_vfork_jmpbuf");
54 function Get_Current_Invo_Context
55 (Addr
: System
.Address
) return Process_Id
;
56 pragma Import
(C
, Get_Current_Invo_Context
,
57 "LIB$GET_CURRENT_INVO_CONTEXT");
59 Pipe1
, Pipe2
, Pipe3
: aliased Pipe_Type
;
62 Arg_List
: aliased array (1 .. Args
'Length + 2) of System
.Address
;
64 Command_With_Path
: String_Access
;
67 -- Create the rest of the pipes
70 (Descriptor
, Err_To_Out
, Pipe1
'Access, Pipe2
'Access, Pipe3
'Access);
72 Command_With_Path
:= Locate_Exec_On_Path
(Command
);
74 if Command_With_Path
= null then
75 raise Invalid_Process
;
78 -- Fork a new process. It's not possible to do this in a subprogram.
80 if Alloc_Vfork_Blocks
>= 0 then
81 Descriptor
.Pid
:= Get_Current_Invo_Context
(Get_Vfork_Jmpbuf
);
86 -- Are we now in the child (or, for Windows, still in the common
89 if Descriptor
.Pid
= Null_Pid
then
90 -- Prepare an array of arguments to pass to C
92 Arg
:= new String (1 .. Command_With_Path
'Length + 1);
93 Arg
(1 .. Command_With_Path
'Length) := Command_With_Path
.all;
94 Arg
(Arg
'Last) := ASCII
.Nul
;
95 Arg_List
(1) := Arg
.all'Address;
97 for J
in Args
'Range loop
98 Arg
:= new String (1 .. Args
(J
)'Length + 1);
99 Arg
(1 .. Args
(J
)'Length) := Args
(J
).all;
100 Arg
(Arg
'Last) := ASCII
.Nul
;
101 Arg_List
(J
+ 2 - Args
'First) := Arg
.all'Address;
104 Arg_List
(Arg_List
'Last) := System
.Null_Address
;
106 -- This does not return on Unix systems
108 Set_Up_Child_Communications
109 (Descriptor
, Pipe1
, Pipe2
, Pipe3
, Command_With_Path
.all,
113 Free
(Command_With_Path
);
115 -- Did we have an error when spawning the child ?
117 if Descriptor
.Pid
< Null_Pid
then
118 raise Invalid_Process
;
120 -- We are now in the parent process
122 Set_Up_Parent_Communications
(Descriptor
, Pipe1
, Pipe2
, Pipe3
);
127 Descriptor
.Buffer_Size
:= Buffer_Size
;
129 if Buffer_Size
/= 0 then
130 Descriptor
.Buffer
:= new String (1 .. Positive (Buffer_Size
));
132 end Non_Blocking_Spawn
;